Pubdate: Mon, 30 May 2005 Source: Port Macquarie News (Australia) Contact: http://portmacquarie.yourguide.com.au/sitemail.asp?class=site%20email Copyright: 2005 by Rural Press Ltd Website: http://portmacquarie.yourguide.com.au/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3813 Author: Clare Hayes BALI NINE MUM SAYS BOYCOTT BALI ROBYN Davis is clearly unsettled by the Schapelle Corby verdict. While her son Matthew Norman sits in a Bali jail cell accused of being a drug mule, Corby has been handed a 20-year sentence for a similar crime. Corby was convicted of possessing marijuana. Norman was one of the Bali 9 allegedly found with heroin in a Bali motel room, although he wasn't one of the group with heroin strapped to his body. And now his Port Macquarie-based mum who fears he may become suicidal, wants Australians to boycott Bali. "It's pretty sad and it worries me what is going to happen," she said after watching the Corby verdict on television on Friday. "Especially when there are nine other people about to go through the same thing. "It's not fair and it is too strict. "I'm frightened Matthew will commit suicide because he doesn't want to stay there." What is worse for Ms Davis is knowing that she can't contact her son to comfort him after the verdict. She told the Port News she had no telephone access to him and will have to rely on the post to send any words of comfort because she can't afford another trip just yet. Ms Davis, scared by the Corby verdict, is now urging Australian travellers to steer clear of Bali. "I hope no-one else goes over to Bali so they don't have to go through this," she said. "It worries me what's going on." She is also pressuring the Australian government to organise a prisoner exchange quickly, for Schapelle Corby, her son and the Bali 9. The reality of Norman's situation hit Ms Davis during a two-week visit to Bali. She was granted restricted time with Norman and returned to Port Macquarie last week frustrated by the Indonesian system and the hypocrisy of a country which she said condemned tourists with drugs but whose citizens openly offered it for sale on the streets. - --- MAP posted-by: Josh